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Bestseller List for January 19, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending January 15, 2012
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Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. | Death Comes to Pemberley P.D. James, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307959850 James draws the characters of Jane Austen's beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem. |
1/6 |
2. | Believing the Lie- Debut Elizabeth George, Dutton, $28.95, 9780525952589 George's masterful new Inspector Lynley mystery is a January Indie Next List Great Read. |
/1 |
3. | The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes, Knopf, $23.95, 9780307957122 In this new novel by the author of Pulse, a middle-aged man contends with a past he has never much thought about. |
2/13 |
4. | The Paris Wife Paula McLain, Ballantine, $25, 9780345521309 McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway. |
8/47 |
5. | 11/22/63 Stephen King, Scribner, $35, 9781451627282 King's dramatic new novel about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. |
7/10 |
6. | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Stieg Larsson, Knopf, $27.95, 9780307269997 The stunning third and final novel in Larsson's bestselling Millennium Trilogy. |
3/74 |
7. | State of Wonder Ann Patchett, Harper, $26.99, 9780062049803 The provocative new novel, set deep in the Amazon jungle, by the author of Bel Canto. |
4/32 |
8. | The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385534635 Morgenstern's spell-casting debut novel about a mysterious circus and a duel between two young magicians is a September Indie Next List Great Read. |
9/18 |
9. | 1Q84 Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $30.50, 9780307593313 Murakami's stunning new novel is a tremendous feat of imagination, and a November 2011 Indie Next List Great Read. |
5/12 |
10. | The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides, FSG, $28, 9780374203054 An impressive new novel about the lives of three seniors at Brown University in the early 1980s by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex. |
6/14 |
11. | The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach, Little Brown, $25.99, 9780316126694 Harbach's outstanding debut novel about baseball, ambition, family, friendship, and commitment, is a September Indie Next List Great Read. |
/17 |
12. | The Orphan Master's Son- Debut Adam Johnson, Random House, $26, 9780812992793 Johnson's epic story of a young man's journey through the mysterious dictatorship of North Korea is a January Indie Next List Great Read. |
/1 |
13. | A Dance With Dragons George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $35, 9780553801477 The magnificent fifth book of Martin's epic fantasy, A Song of Ice and Fire. |
12/21 |
14. | The Cat's Table Michael Ondaatje, Knopf, $26, 9780307700117 Ondaatje's wonderful new novel about an 11-year-old boy on board a ship bound for England in the early 1950s is an October Indie Next List Great Read. |
13/13 |
15. | The Litigators John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385535137 Grisham's latest is an entertaining novel filled with courtroom strategies, theatrics, and suspense. |
11/12 |
ON THE RISE | ||
16. | How It All Began Penelope Lively, Viking, $26.95, 9780670023448 Lively's latest novel explores the powerful role of chance in people's lives and the surprising ways lives intersect. |
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